Windows 7 knows what a SSD is and how to handle it; you shouldn't be making any changes. In fact you've basically just shot yourself in the foot by having turned off search indexing and system protection. You really should go turn all of that back on (though if you don't intend to use Hibernation you can leave that off).

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By Indexing, I went to the properties of the SSD & unchecked "Allow files on this drive to have files indexed"

Is this the one you are thinking of? If so, I'm trying to figure out why I would want to index the files on the SSD especially if they are only supposed to be program/application files

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Originally Posted by ViRGE

Yes. Don't do that.

Windows 7 knows what a SSD is and how to handle it; you shouldn't be making any changes. In fact you've basically just shot yourself in the foot by having turned off search indexing and system protection. You really should go turn all of that back on (though if you don't intend to use Hibernation you can leave that off).

By Indexing, I went to the properties of the SSD & unchecked "Allow files on this drive to have files indexed"

Is this the one you are thinking of? If so, I'm trying to figure out why I would want to index the files on the SSD especially if they are only supposed to be program/application files

Because searching an index is still faster than searching raw files. There's absolutely no downside to leaving this on.

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I think you are totally overthinking the situation. Windows 7 should know what to do. Let it do its thing. The only thing I did after the fact was get rid of hibernation, but even this I waited months until my SSD was getting too full.

Yes, the misinformation on how to set up an SSD is like weeds popping up all over the place in different forms.

The only things you should really worry about doing are disabling hibernation if you don't use it, mucking with your page file as long as you know what you're doing, and turning off System Restore if you really don't care to ever use it -- but all of this applies only if you have a small SSD and *really* need the space.

The rest of the stuff is completely unneeded and/or lowers performance. Just run the WEI tool from inside Windows and it'll treat your SSD how it is supposed to.